The World's Largest Shovel Still In Existence | BIG BRUTUS (Exclusive Footage & Pics)
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Published 2024-03-22
Equiped with a 90-cubic yard bucket, Big Brutus had an operating weight of 11,000,000 pounds, or 5,500 tons. Owned by Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, the machine operated from 1963 until 1974.
After facing the elements for a decade, Big Brutus was turned into a museum in 1985. You can still visit the giant shovel today in West Mineral, Kansas.
BIG BRUTUS
6509 NW 60th St
West Mineral, KS 66782
United States
Exclusive footage and pictures kindly provided by Cody Morris from Big Brutus Inc.
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All Comments (21)
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Big Brutus had to be the luckiest monster made of steel…while the rest of his brothers Muskie and Silver Spade had died in scrap…Brutus right now has to hold the record of how he’s still alive and able to see all the people who watched him work…rest in peace Metal monsters of steel.
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This is why hydraulic machines never will be so large and powerful as rope shovel. Mighty machine. It's good that they preserved it as a museum
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Big Brutus has continued to fascinate my children. They were introduced to “him” in the mid 1980s
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What a stunning piece of iron. Happy it's still "alive" and i can't wait to see it in person, one day. It's only 7000km away 😂 Great video 🎉
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I got to see it in operation in 1964. The one thing that was suprising to me was how quiet it was. I was expecting a lot of noise and smoke until I was told it was electric. It was a sight to behold when it scooped a load of coal!
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I'm really glad at least one of those giants was preserved..i remember all of them fondly. The Silver Spade, The Captain, Big Muskie and this one, Big Brutus.
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This is an excellent video. I never get tired of seeing Big Brutus, and the museum is very special to me.
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I climbed all the way to the boom tip when I visited Brutus in 1996, I have a lot of photos looking over the museum site, impressive machine indeed.
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What a monster!!! So glad tho it could be saved from being scraped. Great video 🎉🎉
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What a monster!!
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Great documentary of the Bucyrus Erie 1850B electric mining shovel! A video documentary of the Marion 6360 "Captain" shovel (the largest electric mining shovel ever made), would also be great! There doesn't seem to be much YouTube video of the Marion 6360 mining shovel, which is disappointing, & surprising, since the Marion 6360 shovel was the largest mining shovel made, & the only one of its type.
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We were a proud and capable America then, unlike today.
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It's such a sight to see. I just stand in awe. I was blown away by the plaque next to the tracks. Each piece is over 2k lbs. It's just spectacular. Back when this country knew how to build things.
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Thank very much on this film.i former fording coal limited,elkford,bc worker 1980- 88 work myself 8750 marion dragline.this piece of history was well look after expose know how us heavy equipment builders.the coal mining change drastic last 80 years include reclamation start by fred mannix coal mining.the shovel models change too with cables and hyd systems.thanks video thump hup.😊
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Big Brutus, a machine so big and strong like this gorgeous country! Greetings from Germany.
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Big Muskie should have been preserved that was a crime scrapping it, could you please do a video on the CAT 666 SCRAPER PLEASE 🙏
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Great video- I enjoy the old shovels especially the giant ones. I have never read the full story on Brutus until now and this is the only video I have found of Brutus working. 👍
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It’s great you can still see this thing at its museum in Kansas 😊 I grow up seeing it time to time in the summer go on a car ride to go see it
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We are in big brutas right now taking a tour lol
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Very fine job on this video, well done!
